PERSON: Omar Jimenez

Correspondent

Omar Fernando Jimenez (born November 27, 1993) is an American journalist and correspondent working for CNN.

Jimenez was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and raised in Kennesaw, Georgia. He is Afro-Latino; his mother, Jayne Morgan, is a cardiologist and African American, and his father, Omar Jimenez Jr., is a neurosurgeon and native of Colombia. Jimenez has three brothers. When he was in sixth grade, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother.

Jimenez attended Kennesaw Mountain High School. While playing high school basketball, Jimenez fractured his back and was unable to play for eight months. He attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where he majored in broadcast journalism. He played on the men’s varsity basketball team from 2011 to 2013 at Northwestern after a successful walk-on tryout. With other journalism and law students, Jimenez worked with the Chicago Innocence Project to investigate wrongful convictions.

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